Week 2 - WTA International ($275k) - Hobart, Australia - Hard

Status Quo · Intermediate Club Player

Week 2 - WTA International ($275k) - Hobart, Australia - Hard

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

The only thing is, in every one of those 4 matches, she has been the pre match betting favourite, so while all were higher ranked players, they weren't necessarily upsets or against superior players. That said, she may well have lost some of them last year, and it's been a very encouraging last 10 or so matches, stretching back to Tianjin last season.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

and up to mid 80's live rankings wise. Mertens will be tough, if it is indeed her in the next round.

the addict · Tennis legend

Any match against a top 20 player will be tough ! And it is Mertens, who this week has beatem Mchale WR86 1&1 and Kuzmova WR61 0&1

Peter too · Tennis legend

R2: WATSON, Heather (GBR) Q 101 def FERRO, Fiona (FRA) 63 7-6(5) 6-3

QF: WATSON, Heather (GBR) Q 101 v MERTENS, Elize (BEL) 1 17 CH=12 26/11/18

Heather has played Elize three times before, winning only one set.

Ace Ventura · Tennis legend

They've gone for the local WC vs the rising star, and Muguruza-Kudermetova as the two evening matches, so Heather is second on around 4am UK. She finished her match pretty quickly, so wasn't on court much later than Mertens, so turnaround shouldn't really affect things.

SuperT · Futures qualifying

Status Quo wrote:
Well done Hev

At her career bread and butter level in the realm of $100K - International, Hev has managed to resolidify her form and competiveness:
Last 6 months of results at that level:

Jan '20 - International, Hobart (Q) QF*
Oct '19 - International, Tianjin - F
Sep '19 - $125K New Haven, - SF
Aug '19 - $100K Vancouver, - WIN

That's very respectable, and the sort of progress she made in her best form. Though, it is arguable whether she actually played better tennis previously, or not.
It's when she strays into Premier or above that she still has trouble, only ever managing a high of one win in any tournament in that bracket, and that almost always in qualifying (becasue her WR is too low to get in as of right)

But the return to consistency over time at her normal level of competition is very encouraging & hopeful

I pretty much agree with this, and it's good to see Heather getting back closer to where her ranking should be. She's certainly good enough to be top 100, probably around 70 to 90, which is why it was so disappointing to see her drop so low last year.

Babfive · Pro player

Close but Heather loses the first set 6-7(5)

Julia Carrot · All-time great

And now a rain delay -

Julia Carrot · All-time great

At 3 - 4 Ad Heather

Babfive · Pro player

Julia Carrot wrote:
At 3 - 4 Ad Heather

The BBC and WTA live say 4-4 so they must have stayed in court for one more point.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Good effort from heather so far.

wolf · Tennis legend

After a very long game at 4-4 Heather breaks then serves it out to win the second set 6-4.

wolf · Tennis legend

After 4 breaks in 5 games, Heather is at *2-3 third set.

emmsie69 · ATP level

3 all final set, it did show Mertens had broken to go 4-2 so not sure what happened there.